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Greece sells airspace to TPB

Athens, Greece - Political power in Athens, Greece, today signed an agreement with representatives for The Pirate Bay (TPB) about exclusive usage of the greek airspace at 8000-9000ft.

- This might come as a shock for many but we believe that we need to both raise money to pay our debts as well as encourage creativity in new technology. Greece wants to become a leader in LOSS, says Lucas Papadams, the new and crisply elected Prime Minister of Greece.

LOSS that he is referring to is not the state of finances in the country but rather Low Orbit Server Stations, a new technology recently invented by TPB. Being a leader for a long time in other types of LOSS, TPB has been working hard on making LOSS a viable solution for achieving 100% uptime for their services.

- Greece is one of few countries that understands the value of LOSSes. We have been talking to them ever since we came up with the solution seeing that we have equal needs of being able to find financially sustainable solutions for our projects, says Win B. Stones, head of R&D at TPB.

The agreement gives TPB a 5 year license to use and re-distribute usage of the airspace at 8000-9000 ft as well as unlimited usage of the radio space between 2350 to 24150 MHz. Due to the financial situation of both parties TPB will pay the costs with digital goods, sorely needed by the citizens of Greece.

Hey TPB- maybe you should think ahead and start building a bridge from that airpace to Moon? Because when Newt Gingrich is elected president of USA, his gonna build some moonbases- and so, a bridge like that will then definitely come in handy

Selling air space lol... doesn't seem sane.. we don't have shortage of air space yet so it must be like 1 kilometer 1 cent. In near future a small square meter will cost thousand. There will be so many satellites they will block the sun rofl.

I like Greeks although they are more clever than their economical would suggest.. Guys...you bought something they sold me a week ago..! After all maybe it's the best way to finish the Greek crisis ;) Let's all invest our money in Greek airspace! Out of sympathy for this wonderful country!

wow, you guys just keep on giving us one surprise after another... as long as your up(quite literally it seems) the world still has hope for freedom of speech. i just hope that the EU, NATO, UN, IMF make Greece back down from this. maybe you can try talking to other countries' officials for their air space.
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While I appreciate the Pirate Bay, this joke is not well thought out, considering the millions of hard-working, struggling Greeks that fell victims to this crisis. The so-called bailouts are not for ordinary people, but for banks. Greeks don't see a single eurocent. Please, do not continue with this rhetoric, poisoned by media lies.

nice... i don't know if this thing with Greece is a joke or not, but there is something that is definitely not funny: all these removed comments. I happened to read one of them just before it was removed and it didn't say anything bad about anyone/anything, in anyway.

LUCAS PAPADIMOS IS NOT ELECTED YOU IDIOT!!!
His position was given to him,by the european fascists that destroy countries within economical measures,to divine and conquer!
And so...the immoral,incompetent,useless,traitor politicians of Greece-Hellas,after stealing the money for decades and bringing "measures" to the parliament of Thieves,so that noone after the Treachery to go in prison,managed,a country such Ancient and Glorious,the Mother of all Goodness and Spiritualism-on this awful,fucking planet-,not to be Respected as it should,but everyone to make fun of the situation!
In Ancient Greece,that thievery,those unethical bastards,would be executed the same day!!!SHAME.

Because I heard some people whining from Greece. I am greek and I approve of this joke. For those who don't get what satyrical means.

1)There's an un-elected official as prime minister.
2)Any greek knows there's no chance of the two parties to agree on or do anything beneficial to the citizens
3)Seriously? The radio frequency? Until a few years ago it was still run by the church.

All in all. Please mock them until they grow some brains *thumbs up * (And i wish it were true)

Well it is April the 1st but I guess some countries do not know about that, So a LOSSless server in VVVLER (Very Very Very Low earth Orbit) which is of course flying at very low speeds to keep it in position over Greece is the answer. Now if the Pirate Bay just charges 50 Euro Cents per download, the Greek debt will be paid off in no time at all (announcement will be next April 1st of course ;-)

Of course all countries can help now by saving the costs of there existing Governments and paying there wages to the Greek debt fund and the problem will go away overnight.

Meanwhile my 'Government' in the UK is now taxing Air Travel, this way people who don't even LIVE in the UK pay the TAX .... Great Plan... On long haul flight this could add over €180 Euro per person per flight. The UK has NOTHING TO SHOW for the North Sea Oil, or all the Billions raised in Privatisation, or with current taxes. We no longer have an Army or Navy. The Air force is a joke. Help for Heroes and the Royal British Legio

You see, all these 'comment removed' are for your benefit. Better not to know about the real truth - Microsoft bought all the fog in England and it's exporting it now to China to be packed as Windows 9.

There are so many things that can be said about LOSS and TPB.
Well for starters, all those wishing TPB the best and hoping that TPB should put a station on the moon and further, please read the definition of LOSS. LOSS is LOW ORBIT, LOSS will never work from moon it is just too damn HIGH. Secondly, there are several companies working under LOSS worldwide including mine and I know exactly how to achieve LOSS. LOSS has 2 factors height which is always lesser and radio frequency which is always greater. That is how you get LOSS. Greece is not the only country working at LOSS there are many, like the whole of Europe is secretly working at LOSS they just do not want to disclose yet. USA has been at LOSS for several years they do not admit it, yet, soon they will. Soon when TPB will be working on LOSS then we all can say that TPB is at LOSS. It will happen and i wish all the best.

april fool or not... if i buy i t-shirt (http://bytelove.com/partners/thepiratebay.html) and then my friends buy t-shirts and so on.. will you have enough money to do buy the airspace over greece.. and then it will become like the last movie in matrix where they fly up above all the drones and can finally see the sun.

I dont get it, what Pirate bay earns from the airspace and the radio freq.. I am from Hellas, (you call it greece not us.. lol).. And its good to host pirate bay here, but I dont get it "how" and why this is great news..

Hellas is one of the countries that "under the table" as always, tried to bring acta here, but its not voted, at least not yet, and soon we have elections, and the left partie become is going to be much much stronger.. Thats good, at least for internet freedom..

The comments here are so much more hilarious then the article. And the people asking about the removed comments, even complaining like it's something so serious and mysterious and I don't know. WOW you people, shake your head a bit before writing something online and making a fool of yourselves. OK, it is a day for fools after all, but still. :) No card feelings to anyone.

And just to say, TPB rules, you guys keep the site on and fight those money sucking bastards. You're my heroes, even without the space probes. ;)

these guys are the shit april fools or not i admire the level of thought put into this one hahah it would have been funny for april fools to pretend like the Imaginary Boogeymen of the Millenum Copyright act finally won hahahahha that would be a good joke!!

Many people live around the world like myself we support Pirate Bay. Hope you reach new heights every day, week, month and every year. We stand united with you and we will never forget you contribution to make the world better for all of us. Your high spirited devotion to freedom converting ignorance to intelligence is a lesson will be taught to endless generations like the brave Spartans only with much happier result with no end but a continues prospers result. It is No wonder the masters of the (New World Order) A.K.A (The End of The Free World) are literarily telling each other in their multimillion dollar offices I did wee-wee in my pants.

Yep indeed Greece know very well everything about LOSSes. And the Greek internet is one of the fastest out there (Speedtest for statistics). But well better pirate it by sharing with others than steal it for yourself only and ruin a country. Piratebay FTW. Full steam ahead in the 2012 the end is near.

Sweet. Better April Fool's than Torrent Day. They only offered free VIP for life. TPB your creativity and Intelligence (yep capital I for TPB) is awesome. LOL - That means free WiFi on my 747 when I fly over right? Happy April 1 to you all at TPB. -- LOL - Amazing comments.

April Fools or not, what would be a good move forward would be to have more artists (writers, painters, graphic artists, musicians, sculptors, filmmakers, and so on) create content for TPB and distribute it via TPB. I'm doing that with my four books, plus I am working on a piece on Dianetics that I hope will become banned in both Russia and Germany. (I need help with translations, but that's another story) When the easily fooled public realizes that torrenting is more than so-called "piracy" (A despicable corporate-culture term I hear and read far too often) then it will be more difficult to mobilize any negative publicity... Just saying... I love Piratebay, and I hope everyone who ever gets a letter from the ISP says they were downloading my books, just as I want you to: free, open file format so you can change them anyway, and for you to use as you want to. The move to suppress information, whether it is through quasi- religious institutions, political parties, outright banning/censorship of ideas, and cor

Wow me and my robotics friends in the US are super physicked about this! I myself am an avid hobby robot builder and work intimately with embedded processors whenever I get a chance. I think it would be fantastic if you made this an open source project, there are massive communities of hobbyists that would love to work on a project like this! Including myself!

I think it is impossible! First, in this height, anyone who has been to Greece knows that the Broad-winged Hawks hunt in that height, diving from 9 thousand feet to earth in a blink of an eye , and thus they might disrupt the signals of LOSS that are being sent to the world, now imagine that , Greece no longer sending LOSSes signals to the world, it would be the end of all as we know and thousands of illegal slave workers would build that drone for nothing.

Keep up the good work guys, like me, Try to live forever, so far so good!

Bullshit!
this is a Diversion only!
Anyway, think about ballons flying around are more better. Or try to put stations hiding deep under water insteed. Or not bad at all to get stuff on the boat and make it happend from there.

I have total respect for you guys - I got hooked up to TPB a couple of years ago when my brother passed away and I tried to load a copy of his XP on my system and it told me to
'contact the vendor' yeah like I was gonna ring microsoft and beg them to be able to use a dvd which he paid for.
Thanks to TPB users I was able to download a fresh clean copy of XP (without all the pre loaded shit that comes with a retail version) and also Windows 7 and anything else that I wanted. You guys rock, thanks. I want to make adonation so that you guys can keep finding ways to outwit those corporate bastards who think they own the internet.

The reason why this would be cruel if it were an April Fools joke, is that we're having an election season and this just motivated people to vote back this guy. So please, for the sake of the Greek people state if that's a joke or not (we really wish it's not a joke but we hate this guy too).

I am a policy advocate & a staunch activist-striving to make real differences to people living in the toughest circumstances i.e the poor, the marginalized, the disadvantaged in developing countries.I have a problem with service providers- mainly govt & private institutions...with fiscal interests , want to monopolize essential services & the world...& deny the poor everything! So when I came across TPB the other day & managed to do what I thought was totally impossible... in this lifetime....well, i had an epiphany later...that the fight for freedom must continue from all fronts..TPB made my day and I am forever indebted .I am willing to support its cause anytime.kudos TPB